Just played the game for about 15 mins and so far so good. The only issues I have is the CS are choppy, other than that I have everything on and only drop to 40 but hover around 55ish most of the time so...

How do I explain it? Group-think and confirmation bias. But feel free to continue to believe that Nvidia has a corporate policy to intentionally de-optimize their older cards, rather than consider they just may be able to make driver improvements to a new architecture that don't automatically apply to the old one.

Hey, don't take it so personally. I know you would say anything to defend Nvidia but this is a real issue that many more people than just me are complaining about. There is no question that GK110 performance has tanked across the board in the last 10 months and there really isn't a good explanation for it other than that Nvidia is trying to push us onto midrange GM204 by nerfing GK110 performance, which was just too close to the new "flagship" at launch.

The same thing will inevitably happen to Titan X owners when "little" Pascal comes out next year, you watch...